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- 1. Which director famously rejected Alex North's score for 2001: A Space Odyssey in favor of a temp track?
- 4. Which Romantic opera composer pioneered the leitmotif to help audiences track characters in long operas?
- 5. Which composer pioneered the use of the leitmotif in film music with his 1933 score for King Kong?
- 7. What is the term for a piece of music that is about something or tells a specific story?
- 10. Whose 5th Symphony features a famous 4-note motive representing fate knocking on the door to transition from feelings of hopelessness to triumph?
- 13. Which composer wrote four violin concertos that each depict one of the four seasons?
- 14. Who composed The Erlking, a lied telling the story of a father rushing his dying son through the woods?
- 17. What is the term for taking a composer's written music and arranging it for an orchestra or ensemble to play?
- 20. Which German composer is famous for blending orchestral and electronic music in scores like The Lion King and Inception?
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- 2. Which composer and director introduced electronic music to film scoring with his 1973 score for Dark Star?
- 3. Film music originally began as a way to drown out the noise of what machinery while films were showing?
- 6. Who composed The Hebrides Overture to paint a musical picture of a cave in Scotland?
- 8. Who composed the iconic horror score for the 1960 film Psycho?
- 9. What is the term for the process where a director and composer meet to discuss what kind of music is needed and where it should go?
- 11. What process, named after a pioneer at Universal Studios, involves adding everyday sounds like breaking glass or footsteps to a film?
- 12. Which Romantic period composer originated the term "programme music"?
- 15. What music genre did Alex North introduce to film scoring in the 1951 movie A Streetcar Named Desire?
- 16. Which Canadian composer created the musical identity of Middle-earth for The Lord of the Rings trilogy?
- 18. What is the process where a composer translates timing requirements into exact speeds or tempos to match film scenes?
- 19. What musical concept, built from motives, links to the film as a whole rather than a single specific character?
